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Any company receiving subsidies to build semiconductor chips in the US need to follow all sorts of socialist nonsense.
All companies need to provide childcare that’s unionized. All construction labor needs to be unionized. Workers in these plants will need to be unionized, and there will need to be a certain number of diversity hires. The US government will also directly be able to get some of the profits.
I foresee this entire boondoggle to be a massive waste of money. Because of all the government regulations it’s unlikely the US will outcompete Asian fabs.
Hilarious and forget it, setting-up and running a modern chip manufacturing-plant in the US is a no-go.
The cost to run a chip-plant here, compared to China....there is no way the per-chip
price coming from a US plant will be even close to competitive............without ooooodles of
government "help".
The competitive retail-price of an older yet still widely used chip, like the high-speed version of the 555-timer, would be impossible to achieve in the US.....without selling it at a loss.
This is fine as long as it rewards the hard workers but all too often these types of programs reward people who abuse the system taking disability when it's not needed and getting paid to not work. Then the people who show up every day end up resenting the freeloaders and having to work extra for their absences. Then some of them quit. Just another way for government to spend money it doesn't have by the modern monetary theorists and their perpetual too-big-to-fail top to bottom entitlement state.
Hilarious and forget it, setting-up and running a modern chip manufacturing-plant in the US is a no-go.
The cost to run a chip-plant here, compared to China....there is no way the per-chip
price coming from a US plant will be even close to competitive............without ooooodles of
government "help".
The competitive retail-price of an older yet still widely used chip, like the high-speed version of the 555-timer, would be impossible to achieve in the US.....without selling it at a loss.
The thing about China is, their industries are heavily subsidized. So any business trying to compete with one of China's key industries needs to have tons of government "help" just to exist. Unfortunately, the kind of help that will be offered will be the exact opposite of help. A USA company would be far better off without that help, but they still won't be able to compete with China. Anyone purchasing these chips from a USA supplier for the next decade will likely be doing so because of government mandates, or they actually give a damn about their country and don't mind paying more.
Any company receiving subsidies to build semiconductor chips in the US need to follow all sorts of socialist nonsense.
All companies need to provide childcare that’s unionized.All construction labor needs to be unionized. Workers in these plants will need to be unionized, and there will need to be a certain number of diversity hires. The US government will also directly be able to get some of the profits.
I foresee this entire boondoggle to be a massive waste of money. Because of all the government regulations it’s unlikely the US will outcompete Asian fabs.
the cost of that alone will be more than half a billion chinese chips.
This is fine as long as it rewards the hard workers but all too often these types of programs reward people who abuse the system taking disability when it's not needed and getting paid to not work. Then the people who show up every day end up resenting the freeloaders and having to work extra for their absences. Then some of them quit. Just another way for government to spend money it doesn't have by the modern monetary theorists and their perpetual too-big-to-fail top to bottom entitlement state.
Possibly. But the problem here is a bill about semiconductor is actually a bill about unionized childcare, union requirements for manufacturing, for construction, diversity inclusion. A lot of the billions that are supposed to be going to actual chips aren’t going to what they’re supposed to be but instead creating a quasi government run pork project that due to all of these other requirements won’t ever be able to produce competitive semiconductor chips despite all the money spent.
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